Marena
Morana. NE lesser power of winter, death and beauty [She/Her]
Pantheon: Slavic
Symbol: A stylized snowflake
Realm: Nether / The Tsardom of Silver
Proxies: None
Marena is as beautiful as you’d expect a power of beauty to be. Her pale skin and silver gown of frost and snow is perfectly contrasted by pitch-black hair and piercing eyes. The goddess carries an icy sceptre that doubles as mace.
The only thing that concerns Marena is beauty. But her perception of it is skewed, to say the least. She believes that while flowers and birds and pictures are pretty indeed, the only true beauty is one that isn’t changing—one that is captured in the ice. See, Morana, like those Doomguard berks, believes that all of existence decays with time. She came up with a plan to halt entropy—at least for the things she likes. See, freezing things slows or stops decay in them. So, Marena steals away anything she deems beautiful and keeps them permanently frozen in her realm. These creatures aren’t dead, and can be unfrozen, but they are unconscious and for the time being, as good as statues.
Fortunately, Morana can only do this with those lost during Winter. In the Summertime, when the solar powers rule, she’s powerless on Prime. This is why Marena harbors an eternal hatred towards Dazhbog. Rumours claim that she’s forged an alliance with White Zmeys and imbued them with the ability to draw away the power of the Red Sun and its petitioners. If these claims were to be confirmed true, it could spark serious conflict between Morana and other Slavic powers.
Marena also has an unusual respect towards the member of another pantheon—Persephone. Morana considers her beautiful, but also thinks she should stay in the Hades forever and let winter take its course.
Sources: Margarita and Jon Winter-Holt. Margarita notes: While this homebrew power is based on Slavic folklore and beliefs, the amount of actual information we have on pre-Christian Slavic deities is so minuscule that building any kind of lore out of it is impossible. However, there are a lot of folk beliefs about things these deities are thought to represent, which I have worked into the piece.